Doctorate in Computer Science and Information Systems (PhD), University of Colorado Denver Business School, CU Denver

Existing graduate courses in the CSE Department and the Business School support the breadth requirements of your PhD. This is a partial list of breadth requirement courses. You may select other courses to satisfy the breadth requirement with the consent of your advisor.

Computer Science Engineering courses

• Applied Computer Simulation and Modeling CSC5222
• Neural Networks CSC5542
• Parallel and Distributed Systems CSC5551
• Introduction to Computer Graphics CSC5565
• Artificial Intelligence CSC5582
• Advanced Computer Graphics CSC5585
• Complex Intelligent Systems CSC5619
• Expert Systems CSC5682
• Knowledge Representation for Intelligent Systems CSC5690
• Data Mining CSC5702
• Introduction to Distributed Systems CSC5704
• Software Engineering CSC5728
• Introduction to Mobile Computing CSC5771
• Theory of Distributed Computing CSC5780

Information Systems courses

• Object-Oriented Analysis and Design ISMG6100
• Distributed Object Systems Development ISMG6140
• Information Systems Policy ISMG6180
• Management Support Systems ISMG6220
• Website Development Practice and Technologies ISMG6240
• Software Project Management ISMG6260
• Service Oriented Architecture ISMG6280
• Global eBusiness ISMG6400
• Global Enterprise Systems ISMG6420
• Knowledge Management ISMG6440
• Data Warehouse and Administration ISMG6480
• Special Topics ISMG6800
• Research Methods: Design and Analysis ISMG7220

You will fulfill the research methodology requirement to gain a background and improve the rigor in your research. To fulfill the research methodology requirement, you may select from graduate courses in computer science, biometrics, math, economics, behavior sciences, engineering, education, business and computational biology.

You may select other courses to satisfy the research methodology requirement with the consent of your advisor and the PhD program co-director.

Students in the Business School must take ISMG7220 as one of their research methodology courses unless you already have taken an equivalent graduate statistics courses. A waiver for ISMG7220 must be given by your advisor and program co-director. CSE students are encouraged to take CS-PhD level courses; you can refer to the computer science list of courses.

Sample courses from the different disciplines include: